The Arizona sentinel., 1887-01-29
MUGGINS' ADVENTURES.
Most Extraordinary Tales Which Contain.
 ed One Indisputable Bit of Truth.

Most Extra ordinary Tales Which Contain.
 ed One Indisputable Bit of Truth.
 It is singular the hallucinations that will get possession of a man when he has been drinking little too much. Now there is Muggins, a temperate and truthful man as a rule, but when he is little ''off'-for he gets that way once in awhile-he tells the most extra ordinary tales of his adventures by land and sea-pure fabrications, all of them. He imagines that he has been everywhere, met everybody and seen every thing, when the fact is that he was born and raised in the village where he resides and was never more than twenty miles away from home in all his life He has travelled ''in his mind'' altogether. He quite believes all that he is relating while the spirit is on, but mournfully repudiates it all the next morning.
 "Then you wasn't on a four years whaling voyage when boy?" said a man to whom he acknowledged that his tales of the night before were all made out of whole cloth.
 ''Whale nothin'," said Muggins, gloomily. 'I don't see why need to tell that pesky lie every time I get full. The only experience I had in whaling was when dad whaled me"
 You said you went before the mast"
 ''It was lie; the mast went before me, long enough"
 'Never heard more entertaining story in my life," continued the man, ''than you gave me of going around the Horn.
 "Well, didn't go around any horn while I was telling it, did I?"
 You said terrible storm came up every body just frightened to death ex, cept yourself. The captain told you to take the helm"
 Ibid I state where he wanted me to take it to?" said Muggins with bitter sarcasm.
 ''The thunder rolled, the lightning fiashed-"
 'In the pan"
 "And there stood the Horn, perfectly erect and over one thousand feet high. But you got around it."
 You bet I did, I would get around any thing with quart of beer in me. But it's lie, every word of it. Never even saw the sea-"
 Gsnb I,,,f +I,o nla lae. won ,1caI tn nafn,i You wielded the livelIest harpoon in the business.
 i've hung my harpoon the will low sighed Muggins.
 "'ButI say, Muggins," continued his tormetor, ''there isn't any doubt but that you fought in the Mexican war, is there?"
 "Never fought nothin', tell you," said Muggins, pressing his hands to his throbbing temples.
 What! w asn't you the first man to wade the Rio Grande, carrying the stars and stripes high over your head? Didn't you capture Santa Anna single handed, receiving the thanks of General Taylor as you led your prisoner into camp by the coat collar? You said so, yor known
 T suppose I did," groaned Muggins. "What fool a man will make of him. self when the wine is in and-and his wife is outr'
 Well, Mir. Muggins," said the man, 'I begin to doubt some of the other statements that you made to me last night. seriously question whether you gave Morse his ideas about the mag netic telegraph, or invented the tele- phone, or suggested the liberty statue to Bartholdi, or knew Columbus in the old country, or went up in the first bal loon, or was drunk"
 Hold on!' cried Muggins; If said Twas drunk there was one bit of truth that told last night. Let's shake on that"
 So they shook-each other, and part ed.-Teras Sytings.